VISTA - Just Installed it. PICS included.

quarryman

Or Longhorn Build 5112.

Haven't got the wireless working yet so got switch back to XP to post his.

Seems pretty stable so far. Recognised my 6600GT, had to install sound drivers manually.

Looks very nice.

Webmonkey

wtf. Vista? Neverheard called this.
Is this longhorns offical name?

rabbitinlights

Yup, kinda crappy name though, I really liked "XP", Do you think it could be used as your primary OS, Im just after doing a fresh install of XP 2 days ago and Im thinking of just installing it over XP to try out for a while, Or I might just try a Dual boot?

S.

quarryman

definately do a Dual-boot. stability seems ok but its just not compatible enough with 3rd party software.
Having said that all i cant get going is the wireless intenet. If it did work I'd probably use as my main OS for a while.

It makes it easy to allow you to add it to your system if XP already exists on it.

Ste-

Did I not read somewhere did Microsoft were going to use a standard user as default instead of everyone having Administrator logged in as default, for security measures ?
It's not been like that with all the screens I've seen.
Like linux has done for years.

aidan_walsh

Ste- wrote:

Did I not read somewhere did Microsoft were going to use a standard user as default instead of everyone having Administrator logged in as default, for security measures ?
It's not been like that with all the screens I've seen.
Like linux has done for years.

Yes indeedy you did. And about fuggin' time too.

Mind you, I would assume that since everyone who has downloaded it so far would be an MSDN subscriber, they would want to play with the Admin options.

Webmonkey

Can you order it on cd yet, evaluation one?

aidan_walsh

Webmonkey wrote:

Can you order it on cd yet, evaluation one?

Only if you have an MSDN subscription, and it will be released to selected people via the Microsoft Beta site on August 3rd.

Webmonkey

I see. Cool thanks man

weeder

eh ive also installed this i cant get my sound drivers to work at all and when i run the installed i get xp only


also if anyone knows how do i get the transperent effect windows

also net is slower but i blame windows firewall ima try with it off now and ill post what happens

weeder

update:sound workin still no idea on transperency

feylya

Transparency has stumped me too. Got a few hacks installed but it's still not working. Try TweakVista.

weeder

tryed it ive even got the ati drivers installed


my card tnot compatable but the hacks should do it.....i installed the ati dna hacked drivers for all cards mine is a radeon 9250 128MB

feylya

You need the drivers that are marked LDDM. Then download TweakVISTA and select the "Enable DWM on unsupported cards". I just got it working on my 6600GT but I only have a choice of 3 resolutions at the moment.

The Real B-man

looks sweet totally looks like a linux os i assume it has high specs?

feylya

High enough. It can be pretty slow on an AMD 64 3000+ 1gig ram 2x200gigs in Raid 0 with a 6600GT.

youcancallmeal

I presume this os will be taking advantage of 64bit computing, if so is there any notable difference?

feylya

I don't have the 64 bit version so I don't know.

weeder

the official lddm wont work with my card but ive hard tell of a copy with a hacked inf floating around if anyone knows where to get it

Tobias Greeshman

Just wondering if Vista has Multiple Desktops like KDE/Gnome in Linux has, I remember hearing a while back it was supposed to be in it. But just looking at these screenshots they dont seem to be present.

Gurgle

So they released a new colour scheme for XP.

So what ?

Creamy Goodness

i see paint has gotten a much need makeover and new tools lol

Gurgle

Cremo wrote:

i see paint has gotten a much need makeover and new tools lol

Yes, it hardly looks at all like the version bundled with Windows '95.

NeverSayDie

silas wrote:

Just wondering if Vista has Multiple Desktops like KDE/Gnome in Linux has, I remember hearing a while back it was supposed to be in it. But just looking at these screenshots they dont seem to be present.

Should do, Windows has actually supported multiple desktops for a long time, they just didn't add it to the interface for some reason. You can download a PowerToy from MS that lets you use multiple desktops on XP (2000 too, AFAIK, I think all versions of NT have virtual desktop support)

Tobias Greeshman

NeverSayDie wrote:

Should do, Windows has actually supported multiple desktops for a long time, they just didn't add it to the interface for some reason. You can download a PowerToy from MS that lets you use multiple desktops on XP (2000 too, AFAIK, I think all versions of NT have virtual desktop support)

Thanks I found and downloaded all the PowerTools, great collection of stuff altogether, never even knew they existed

Scruff

isnt vista suppoed to be gone absolutely mad on drm?

MrVestek

Scruff wrote:

isnt vista suppoed to be gone absolutely mad on drm?

Not from what I could see, then again the stock install only has WMP10.

I installed Vista yesterday and I have to say, I don't like it one bit. Some of the newer bells and whistles are looking ok, like the very fadey, 3Dness of all the windows, and how they open and close. I'm sure under the hood there have been alot of changes but from what I've seen so far they're yet again copying things that have been in the Mac OS for years, particularly Mac OSX. For me, there's not enough new things in this OS to warrent a seperate OS release, it's just XP with a few bells and whistles. And I don't care what M$ say, there's no way Longhorn or Vista has been built from the ground up, hell when I installed one of the very first alpha versions all those moons ago, the OS title in my computer said 'Microsoft Windows XP Longhorn'. Surely there's not going to make that kind of mistake if it was built from the 'ground up'.

Not to mention that even installing the damned OS is a hassle within itself. For some reason this release of Longhorn refuses to install onto anything that isn't the Master Hard Drive, something which I simply cannot understand and have done with countless other OS installs, be it Windows, Linux or FreeBSD.

There's another thing to that annoys me about installing Vista, the installation process itself. It's way too simplistic, it's like staring at a screen that says 'hey dumbass, just click here and get on with it already, you obviously don't know what you're doing'. The install routine gives you absolutely no information as to what it's doing either, just says 'Please Sit Back And Wait Whilst We Install Windows'. It's just M$ pandering to the masses of people who don't know any better again and to be honest if they're too stupid to install an OS onto their PC (not that they'll have to thanks to M$ licensing) then they shouldn't have one, period, no matter how 'Easy' they make it.

Ok, rant over, now deleting Vista Partition.